"I'm 72 years old, this has never happened in all the time I've been coming here," said resident Denny Duran.

Two feet of hail dumped on the city. Even though most called it strange weather, experts say it's not an anomaly.

"It's actually not all that unusual, it just happened to be right over I-40, right over the city and got a lot of attention," said Jennifer Palucki with the National Weather Service.

The storm broke a 100-year-old window at a church and caused a carport to collapse.

"A lot of times it occurs where there are no people so we don't get pictures or reports of it," Palucki said.

Hail and rain also hit Albuquerque this week. Meteorologists say it's just the time of year for it.

"We always have to have a thunderstorm with hail," Palucki said. "The one here in Albuquerque, we had up to nickel-size hail on the east side of the city, that storm was moving (a) little quicker, so we didn't see the piles and piles of hail we saw in Santa Rosa."

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